hectoring Definition

haranguing, lecturing, moralizing, blathering, scold, browbeating, nattering, carping, sneering, whining, pontificating, prattling, berating, ranting, harrumphing, badgering, simpering, yammering, fawning, demonizing, jabbering, groveling, babble, henpecking, braying, inveighing, wearies, preening, bleating, kowtowing, fulminating, wheedling, droning, pettifogging, dissembling, excoriates, cajoling, toadying, prevaricating, kvetching, prating, speechify, recriminating, cavilling, declaiming, pitying, attitudinizing, bellyaching, bewailing, blabber, castigating, admonishing, upbraids, bootlicking, disobliging, gabbled, blusters, parroted, lambaste, chastising, patronizing, domineering, goading, squawking, pussyfooting, reviling, discomfit, caterwaul, coddling, condescends, quailing, pilloried, moaning, despising, chide, equivocating, griping, drivelling, warmongering, prodding, whinge, snivel, blithering, spouting, scowling, needling, smirking, bitching, tone, manner, voice, style, verses, tones, rather, slightly, sometimes, around, even, almost,